About Representation
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Following a recent campaign that provoked a strong reaction Debs, Lauren and Steve are joined by Delyth Morgan the Chief Executive of Breast Cancer Now to talk about what wrong. Laura Bailey, AKA That Mum With Cancer, joins us to shed light on why the cancer community reacted the way it did.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.6 | I have a brain just because I have cancer doesn't make me intelligent and you know I still |
| 0:17.0 | can speak like for myself and for a community doesn't make me intelligent doesn't say that |
| 0:23.2 | I can't believe I just said that. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello and welcome to you me in the big C with Deborah James, aka Balbae. |
| 0:42.8 | Me, Laura Mann, otherwise known as Girlverse Cancer, hello and Steve Bland, also known |
| 0:47.5 | as Steve Bland. |
| 0:48.5 | Hello. |
| 0:49.5 | We are all friends, influencers, broadcasters who all have one thing in common, we have |
| 0:54.6 | a relationship with cancer and we want to tell you all about the highs as well as the |
| 0:57.9 | lows. |
| 0:58.9 | You can get in touch with us to suggest future topics and let us know your experiences |
| 1:02.6 | by using the hashtag you me, big C across all forms of social media. |
| 1:06.7 | Okay, so following a recent conversation that was part of social media over the last |
| 1:10.8 | few weeks about marketing campaigns that involve cancer and how people affected by cancer |
| 1:15.0 | are represented in them, it had a bit of a, like it was like a little bit of a storm, |
| 1:19.7 | wasn't it on social media that was quite a lot of angry char. |
| 1:23.2 | It was. |
| 1:24.2 | But really valid points were raised. |
| 1:26.2 | So we just wanted to do a podcast about this today and try to give a both sides of the |
| 1:29.6 | argument. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, because it's a thing that keeps coming up, there's a lot of campaigns whether they |
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